Clothes-line tightener and supporter.



J. M. PHELPS.

CLOTHES LINE TIGHTENER AND SUPPORTER,

APPLIQATION FILED FEB. 23. I916.

L$fi Patented Oct. 24,1916.

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JAMES M. PHELPS,

OF DENVER, COLORADO.

CLOTHES-LINE TIGHTENER AND SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 2%, 1916,

Application filed February 23, 1916. Serial No. 79,925.

1 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. PHELPS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Denver, in the county of Denver and State of Colorado, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Line Tightencrsand Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in clothes line tightenersand supports, one object of the invention being the provision of adevice which will permit the line to be readily tightened and will thensupport it in such position.

A further object of this invention is the provision of a simple, durableand inexpensive device of this character, such device being thorcughlyefficient and practical in use.

In the accompanying; drawings :Figure 1 is a view showing the device inuse. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the up per end of a propcarrying my invention, the parts being in released position. Fig. 3 is asimilar view with the parts locked.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 5 designates the prop, upon theupper end of which is fitted a metal cap 6, which carries two paralleloppositely disposed L-shaped or hooked spaced pins 7, while securing thecap in place in the screw eye 8, to which is attached the hook 9.

In use the clothes line 10 is placed between the pins, and the prop isthen rotated, winding the slack line about the pins as shown in Fig. 2,and when the line is tigl'itened sufficiently, the hook 9 is placed uponthe line, as shown in Fig. 2, thus holding the prop from unwinding.

Thus with a device of this character the slack of the clothes line isremoved, and the line is properly propped.

What I claim as new is A clothes line support comprising a prop adaptedto be rotatably mounted, a cap fitted on the uppermost end of the prop,a pair of inverted substantially L-sha'ped members arranged in spacedrelation to each other and fixed within the cap and adapted to receivetherebetween a clothes line which on the rotation of the prop will wrapportions there of about the members, an eye fixed in the cap at one sidethereof, and a hook loosely connected with the eye and engageable withone portion of the line to prevent the unwrapping thereof from saidmembers.

In' testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

JAMES M. PHELPS.

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